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Who Can You Trust? is the debut release for Morcheeba. It combines downtempo electronica grooves with traditional soul instrumentation and the delicious vocals of Skye Edwards.
Morcheeba’s music is great for dancing or for just chilling out. The music is consistently chilled, with slow grooves, mellow lyrics, and Edward’s soulful voice.
The instrumentation on Who Can You [...]

Beautiful, wonderfully recorded, and moving, Feels Like Home proves that Norah Jones is not a one hit wonder. Norah Jones is the real thing.
So what’s Norah Jones, acoustic chanteuse, doing on Synthtopia?
Every now and then, even electronica fans need to disconnect from the power grid and listen to some clean, simple, heartfelt music. Norah Jones [...]

Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton and Rob Gaza lay down the mellow grooves with The Richest Man in Babylon. The latest tracks from this duo draws respectfully from a variety of influences, including jazz, world music, soul and electronica. The world music influences are especially strong. There’s afro-beat, Persian, and Indian influences throughout. By combining these [...]

Relentlessly funky, Headhunters, defined the world of jazz-funk.
In the early 70’s, jazz audiences were getting smaller, a result of jazz vearing into an experimental, avant garde direction in the 60’s. Jazz musicians were looking for ways to connect with audiences again, and many looked into other, more popular forms of black music for inspiration.
Herbie Hancock’s [...]

Here’s something for the jazz lovers - John Scofield’s Überjam mixes jazz fusion with world music and electronica and creates a new path for the future of jazz. The result is a record that may not appeal to all jazz fans, but should win him a few listeners that love jam bands and electronica.
John Scofield [...]